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Finite-State Description of the French Determiner system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2003

MAX SILBERZTEIN
Affiliation:
Université de Franche-Comté

Abstract

This article describes a large-coverage formalisation of a French determiner system that includes simple words such as “le” (the), compounds such as “la plupart des” (most of), and more complex sequences such as “toute une partie de ce groupe de” (a whole part of this group of). The grammar is available in the form of a library of 150 Finite-State graphs and is compiled into a Minimal Deterministic Finite-State Transducer of over 5,000 states and 113,000 transitions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press

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